Partnering to Create Healthy Futures

Maine's statewide Community Transformation Grant (CTG) is facilitating partnerships among state and local organizations to implement an ...

Healthy eating

September is both National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month and National Fruit and Veggies - More Matters Month. Childhood obesity is a maj...

Six in 10 adults now get physically active by walking

Sixty-two percent of adults say they walked for at least once for 10 minutes or more in the previous week in 2010, compared to 56 percent in...

Weight of the Nation

Obesity is common, serious, and costly. Behavior and environment play a large role causing people to be overweight and obese. These are the ...

Obesity

During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States and rates remain high. In 2010, no state ha...

Breastfeeding and obesity

Childhood obesity is an epidemic. In the US, 1 preschooler in 5 is at least overweight, and half of these are obese. Breastfeeding helps p...

CDC Report Highlights Children’s Food Environment in Maine

A report out from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week shows that Maine is doing better than the nation at improvi...

Do Diet Drugs Drop Density

Not sure if its the AP writer or Arena Pharmaceuticals that wants you to take a bit of this one with a veil of success.  I'm skeptical s...

Common Sense Needed, not new risky weight loss drug

Obesity Concerns Not Cured by A Risky Drug: FDA Plans to Review First of 3 New Diet Drugs Remember Phen-Fen, an older alleged weight loss dr...

PhRMA GREED leads to statins for children

Statins for children 10 to 17 have been FDA approved since 2002.  Now Pfizer seeks EU authorization.  READ IT HERE FIRST: THE IMPORTANT ISSU...

Clear association between obesity and vitamin D deficiency

Calcium, parathyroid health, and obesity Endocrinology: http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jc.2009-2822v1 More on a study co...

Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Update 03/26/10

MAINE H1N1 FEEDBACK SURVEY Maine CDC is conducting numerous in-person debriefings across the state with stakeholders on our H1N1 efforts. In...